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Of all the online nutritional information, nutritional facts, medical and
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CONDITIONS
AND DISEASES PREVENTED AND HELPED BY A LOW-CARB, HIGH-FAT DIET

"NH&WL may be the best non-technical book on diet ever
written"
Joel Kauffman, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of the Sciences,
Philadelphia, PA

Reviews of Trick and Treat:
How 'healthy eating' is making us ill

Trick
and Treat, February 9, 2009

By Jan Cauffman "Beelady" (PA)

This book is very thought provoking. I have made
some significant changes to our household meals as a
result of the research revealed in it. Interesting,
thoroughly researched and informative. A real eye
opener about our "food"!

Another winner from Dr Groves, 7 Feb 2009

By M. W. Ellwood "mwellwood" (Abingdon, GB)

Doctor Barry Groves has come up with another
hard-hitting winner here. He demolishes a lot of the
myths about "healthy eating" and much of what many of
us have taken for granted for many years about living
healthily .

It is perfectly compatible with his previous work
("Natural Health and Weight Loss", but, perhaps out of
a justified sense of urgency, he "takes the gloves off"
to some extent, telling it like it is.

And no wonder. The mainstream diet and health
"gurus" bleat on about the "mystery" of the obesity
epidemic. There is no mystery. Because of the misguided
attack on saturated fats / animal fats that started
during the last quarter (or so) of the 20th century, it
was dogmatically decided that a "healthy diet" had to
be low in fat, and rich in carbohydrates, and "healthy"
fibre. Surprise, surprise, obesity rates went up,
cancer rates went up, and type 2 Diabetes became an
epidemic. The "healthy diet" was successful, but the
patients were, and are, dying.

Barry uncovers all this and much more. If you read
this book, you should also read Gary Taubes, and if you
have already read Gary Taubes, you should read this.

Healthy cynicism, healthy
diet, 1 Feb 2009

By Bookish "Jools" (England)

This weighty tome of a book (498 pages) is a well
researched work on so-called 'healthy eating'.

The author Barry Groves (researcher and lecturer)
comes from England, and looks in detail at the role of
fats, grains, bran, meat, salt, vegetables and fruit
and even sunlight in the British diet - and the
marketing thereof, and draws some startling
conclusions. He asks (and answers) such questions
as:

Who benefits from persuading us that we should eat
more fruit?

More grain?

Skimmed milk?

And who benefits financially from our currently
overweight and over-ill nation?

For example, he states that -

"The mantra that everyone will know is 'eat five
portions of fruit and veg a day.' Yet there is little
evidence of benefit over about two portions a week: and
eating as much as five a day could have serious adverse
effects on health. Growing them is also a wasteful use
of land."

These are powerful words, but Mr Groves backs up his
claims with plenty of research and evidence: 53 pages
of references at the back of the book.

Mr Groves has also researched connections between
diet and conditions such as diabetes, cancer and
multiple sclerosis, that are hard to argue with. It
makes for difficult reading at times.

Mr Groves also says "The good news is that you don't
have to be exploited. If you put your mind to it, not
only can you be totally healthy, you can personally
help to cut the cost of ill-health in this country to a
fraction of its current levels. If you are not ill,
they can't sell you expensive drugs. And once that
happens, your taxes can be reduced..."

Mr Groves looks to the natural order of foods and
nature herself to consider a truly healthy diet, and
what that might look like. Some might say it's common
sense, but it's good to read well researched facts to
back up those nagging doubts that many of us have been
harbouring for many years.

This could be the start of a food revolution...

Read, mark, learn and
inwardly digest, 29 Jan 2009

By E. Young

Barry Groves obviously knows what he's talking about
with a plethora of trials and reports to substantiate
the facts. This makes perfect sense since before all
this mucking about with food to make it "healthy", lots
of the things we ate and drank were naturally whole. I
have ditched a high-fibre diet which resulted
eventually in IBS and am "working" much better for
it.

Trick and
treat, January 16, 2009

By Urszula Polska "ULA"

This is the grate book for every one who wants to be
healthy.

I am a RN MSN and My husband is a MD for many years
i was looking for HEALTHY DIET which makes my husband
more sick, tired having apnea and getting close to have
diabetes.

Every day I spend so much time doing research .I
bought grate book "DIABETES SOLUTION" BY MD BERNSTEIN.
I finally cure my husband from apnea, elevated glucose
.I read 100 of books about low carb diet and now I get
" Trick and treat" by B GROVES .This is revolutionary
book Barry Groves did excellent job providing all
research paper .I studied many of those articles and
tested on my family increasing FAT in our meals with
grate results.Because I am polish ,I know doctor
KWASNIEWSKI (mentioned by BARRY GROVES who treats
Diabetic patients by giving them high fat diet years
ago and now including polish President LECH WALESA. He
was very successful but not popular Majority population
did not believe that fat can be a cure . Barry Groves
DR. Kwasniewski DR. Bernstain and DR Atkin could be a
hope for a tragic obesity and diabetes in our
population. Most of the doctors including my husband
had hard time at the beginning to proof this as a true
. I encourage you to tray and see how your triglyceride
goes down my stay as low as 37 and I have very good HDL
68. Good Luck !

Thank you, Barry
Groves, January 11, 2009

By Anon (Colorado, USA)

I can't imagine anyone doing a better job than Barry
Groves has done on exposing our various nutritional
mythologies using information and research primarily
from major medical journals but also historical
information, basic biochemistry, and common sense. It
is well written and easy to read while covering an
immense amount of material. Even if it does not
convince you of what the author believes constitutes
truly healthy eating (although that's hard to imagine!)
it should at the very least convince you that what
you've been taught is a 'healthy diet' must be
thoroughly questioned! It might also galvanize you to
spread the word in an effort to help change what
doctors and governments consider good nutrition and
helpful strategies for preventing and combatting
illnesses. Barry Groves makes a powerful argument that
we cannot afford the direction in which we are going
with our health care systems -- people are getting
sicker and costs are skyrocketing.

good complement to
Taubes!, January 7, 2009

By Angelica J. Cole

This book goes very well with Taubes, "Good
Calories, Bad Calories". Whereas Taubes work is a
fairly straight forward review of the existing science,
Groves expands into the politics of medical research
and treatment to a much greater extent. Though they
both hit many of the same notes, Groves brings a
different perspective to the subject which highlights
new information, or at least information which may seem
new. Weston A Price followers and low carb devotees
will enjoy. This and Taubes are MUST READS for anyone
who wants to prevent illness, advocate for their own
health, and live a full and happy life!

DON'T READ ANY OTHER BOOK -
UNTIL YOU READ "TRICK & TREAT"!, January 4, 2009

By J. Holloway (USA)

Barry Groves is gonna have a lot of enemies - Big
Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Government and the
entire Nutrition, Dietetic and supplement industries.
Lotsa big money, political power and egos here!

I did exactly what the doctors told me to do, eat
low fat, whole grains, breads, pasta, fiber, bran,
lotsa fruits and vegetables, little red meat, no skin
on chicken - AND I ENDED UP DIABETIC AND HAVE HAD A
QUADRUPLE BY-PASS - boy was that advice wrong!!!!!
(even my Surgeon said "...when are they going to get it
right - for years I have been telling them (other
doctors)its the carbs, sugars and the starches NOT THE
FAT"!

Now, I eat lotsa fat, cheese, butter, eggs,
shellfish, the fat on pork, beef, chicken with the
skin, little or few grains, very little fruit, fresh
tasty raw vegetables HARDLY ANY PROCESSED FOODS and I
never have been in better health - my doctor wants to
know "...you are remarkable what are you doing"? - I
TELL HIM "THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU ARE TELLING ME TO
DO"!!!! I am now off all prescription drugs and thumb
my nose at the American Heart Association, The American
Diabetes Association, and the FDA. Over the last 5
years I have learned much bit by bit from personal
experience and my own research - but Barry Groves puts
it all together in one easy to read and understandable
source.

If you want to control and improve your health, and
enjoy life - you need to read this book TODAY! Then
tell all your friends and relatives to read it too,
maybe we can stop the lies we are being told. "Trick
& Treat" should be required reading IN EVERY HIGH
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE! Buy a copy for your doctor, if
he/she doesn't agree ask them to produce scientific
evidence against the concepts (he/she can't) then find
a new doctor before it is too late.

I can't say enough about the book - I thought my
eyes were open before - I like everyone else was fast
asleep Not any more - I am truly wide awake and
invigorated - Barry Groves has done the world a great
service - if only they read it - instead of listening
to their iPods or cell phones.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO DR. BARRY GROVES - Now to
go back and read it again

THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ!

Illuminating and Controversial,
January 3, 2009

By librtea

In "Trick and Treat: How 'Healthy Eating' is Making
us Ill", Barry Groves blames the current health crisis
in modern western society on three things: the
pervasive high-carbohydrate, low fat diet; governmental
interference in health care; and a
health/pharmaceutical industry that capitalizes on the
situation by promoting unhealthy practices, and then
treating the disease conditions that result. "Trick and
Treat" is divided into two parts. Part One describes
the corruption in the health industry, points out the
problems inherent in a high-carb, low-fat diet, and
then prescribes a diet that leads to good health. The
prescribed diet is high in fat - specifically animal
fat, not polyunsaturated vegetable fat - and low in
carbohydrates, with 60-70% of calories from fat, 15-25%
of calories from protein, and a mere 10-15% of calories
from carbohydrates. Part Two describes numerous
diseases the author claims are the result of high
carbohydrate consumption. These range from
life-threatening disorders such as cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, and cancer to less serious problems
such as acne, near-sightedness and dental problems.

Groves not only turns the current thinking about
what comprises a healthy diet upside-down, but also
refutes many other widely-held beliefs about health. He
tells us to restrict or eliminate bran from our diets,
but not to worry about our sodium intake. He is a
proponent of sun exposure, but suggests that we forego
sunscreens, and says that while exercise may increase
fitness, it has minimal health benefits. Although many
of Groves' assertions are unorthodox, they appear to be
well-researched and documented. There are over 50 pages
of references. The book also contains a glossary, an
appendix, and an index.

"Trick and Treat" is an illuminating, albeit
controversial book. Groves' arguments are quite
convincing, but not easy to completely accept without
further investigation. In the meantime, having never
been a "fat fan", I will continue to remove skin from
poultry and fat from beef, but plan to enjoy a bacon
and egg breakfast on the nearest occasion.

Diet
and Health Tour de Force, January 2, 2009

By Joel M. Kauffman (Berwyn, PA United States)

In this, my 100th book review or so on
www.Amazon.com, I admit to bias for the first time. I
edited an early version of the text more than a year
ago, which was acknowledged on p vii. My book,
"Malignant Medical Myths", was highly praised under
Resources on p489.

Dr. Groves had two main themes; (1) eating
digestible carbohydrate or fiber to excess is not
healthful, and is the cause of or contributes to a wide
range conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease,
cancer, several digestive system conditions, PCOS,
osteoporosis, arthritis, and a multitude of mental
problems; and (2) the National Health Service (NHS) of
the United Kingdom is not doing much to prolong the
healthy lifespans of Britons, and The Food & Drug
Administration (FDA) in the USA is equally compromised.
This may sound familiar, if you read many books on
health, or it may sound unbelievable if you don't.

What makes this book unusual is its depth of
literature searching, with 1174 numbered citations.
Still more unusual is the clarity and readability of
this author. So we have a catchy title, a shocking
cover picture, an easy-to-read style with appropriate
graphs, tables, diagrams, and even a chemical reaction
or two. There are also a glossary, many resources, and
an excellent index. So Carl Sagan said that
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Dr. Groves, Ph. D. Nutrition, provides it. When there
is disagreement on a topic, opposing views are cited;
when there is uncertainly, it is presented as such; no
ranting here. He points out what should be obvious --
drugs and wonder foods cannot save lives. "We are not
an immortal species; life is a universally fatal,
sexually transmitted disease. The best anything can do
is prolong our lives." (p428)

Bad advice from dieticians and Big Pharma, collusion
of government agencies and NGOs, perversion of
physicians and others are all exposed here. The
difference is that there is nutritional and medical
science backing all claims in "Trick and Treat". Books
on mere scandal abound, many written by reporters; they
serve a purpose. But here is an unusual, scientific,
very understandable presentation of why so many beliefs
of your mainstream physician are false. "Many over the
last century have warned that this was happening. They
were ridiculed, dismissed as `cranks', sacked from
their jobs, sidelined, reviled and ostracized as a
result... In the last two decades, however, the rapid
escalation in the numbers [of those with] chronic
diseases and the visibility of them [obesity, diabetes,
Alzheimer's, autism, etc.] means that the evidence [of
malpractice and malfeasance in office] can no longer be
brushed under the carpet." (p425)

Read why eating bran and carbohydrates, even whole
grain, is not healthful; about salt intake, soybean
products, fluoride in water, exercise, and the truism
that a diet satisfactory for thousands of years for our
ancestors and for a number of primitive societies
today, a diet high in animal meat and fat, could not
suddenly turn dangerous in the 20th century.

So a major message is that you should use the facts
in Trick and Treat to participate in your own health
decisions. If this means changing providers, do it. If
it means re-thinking your contributions to useless
health-related charities, do it. You and your
physicians need this book.

But if you want a smaller and less technical
presentation with most of the same main themes, Dr.
Groves' earlier book: Natural Health and Weight Loss",
2007, is also well-referenced, and contains the names
and ratios of essential amino acids, carb contents of
foods, and recipes. Also 5-star.

Your "healthy"
lifestyle may be killing you, December 27,
2008

By Mitchell R. Alegre (Glenwood, New York)

Forget what you know about living a healthy
lifestyle. It's likely wrong--and killing you. That is
the clear message in the book "Trick and Treat" by
Barry Groves. A quick perusal of the abstracts at the
start of each chapter makes it easy to dismiss Groves
as some contrarious crank. But read on. This guy has
done his homework (there are 53 pages of citations). In
a clear, methodical, detailed style, Groves compiles
the evidence against today's multi-billion dollar
health industry.

I didn't have to read much of the book before I
became angry. At first I was angry at Groves for
calling into question everything I have come to believe
about living a healthy lifestyle. He advocates eating
meat not vegetables. Replace your bran breakfast with
eggs and bacon. Scrap the margarine and vegetable oils
and use butter. Sunbathe without the sunscreen. This
guy must be crazy. But as I continued to read, his
arguments continued to make more sense. After all, why
should we humans suddenly change a diet that has
carried us through our evolutionary development? And is
it a coincidence that the rise of obesity, diabetes,
cancer, heart disease, and a host of other ailments
coincide with our obsession with "healthy" eating? Not
according to the extensive evidence compiled by Groves.
My anger eventually became aimed at the professionals
and government that persuaded me to believe in an
unnatural "healthy" lifestyle. I ended my reading of
this book curious to know more about Groves's
recommendations.

I found "Trick and Treat" exhausting to read. It
seems Groves has found every possible study that
supports his premise from the past two centuries and
includes all of them in his book. But he has a way of
explaining the complexities of human physiology and
biochemistry that make these subjects understandable to
the layperson. I was frustrated, though, that there
were not more details included in the book about how to
return to a more human-friendly diet. I suppose I will
need to read one of his other books for that
information. After reading "Trick and Treat," I am
eager to do so.

Reading This Book Will
Make You Smarter Than Your Doctor!, November
16, 2008

By Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Man "Jimmy Moore"
(Spartanburg, SC)

One of the world's most outspoken proponents of a
high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet in modern-day society
is UK-based researcher Dr. Barry Groves. This man is a
walking, talking encyclopedia of all the information
you could ever want to know about livin' la vida
low-carb and imparts that knowledge on all of us with
this new book-a play on words with the popular slogan
used at Halloween in the United States, but an apt
title for what is happening with healthcare in the 21st
century.

Railing against the "healthy" low-fat diet that has
been recommended for so long with no evidence to back
it up, Groves runs through a long laundry list of
various health myths where he sets the record straight.
Medical school students and long-term doctors would
probably learn more about diet and its relationship to
health just from reading this book than in all the
years they spent in medical school and in practice
combined!

Want an inexpensive education in health-READ THIS
BOOK!

Buy
it, 4 Nov 2008

By Thomas Holland "Bola" (uk)

Not just a book on what to eat. Its much broader
than that encompassing a run down on why the new low
fat diet is in fact so bad for us and explains how the
Health Industry, in the interests of profits, is so
keen to push this diet and moreover ensure we stay
ill.

The
Best, 20 Oct 2008

By A. Turner

This is the very best book on diet and health ever
written. Every doctor, dietician and health advisor
should be made to read it. Buy it for everyone you care
about.

This
is a must read, October 17, 2008

By Victoria A. Walker

This is a great book. It should be mandatory reading
for all doctors. Every position is supported by
research evidence. There is so much information
presented, it was a slow read for me. I wanted to be
certain I understood every word, so I often had to
re-read sections. It could be a dull subject but it was
written and formatted in a way that made it a pleasure
to read. You will never again be able to listen to
someone speak about his 'healthy diet' without wanting
to re-educate him. I hope this book is the beginning of
a wave of enlightened thinking when it comes to
personal health and responsibility.

Last updated 24 February
2009

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